Performances    Highlights, 2006-09: September 5, 13, 17 and 18, 2009: Cerar premiered and performed Inanna, a 90-minute "concert play" for actress, violinist, and electroacoustic music, at the Rigiblick Theater in Zürich, Switzerland.  In this piece, co-created by writer Mirjam Neidhart and composer Douglas Geers, Cerar played violin, including sections of improvisation, while acting a major role of the drama.    April 4, 2009: Sweep at Elebash Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, as part of the 2009 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival. February 20, 2009:  Sweep, for violin, percussion, and laptop orchestra, at the Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis as part of the 2009 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts.   Fernando Meza, percussion, Douglas Geers, conductor and composer. September 10-28, 2008:  Calling, a 90-minute opera by Douglas Geers (composer) and Wickham Boyle (librettist), which included several soloistic violin sections and choreography. 15 performances at the La Mama Experimental Theater, New York City. Lesser of Two Evils (excerpt from Calling), Premiered June 26, 2008 at the Boyle/Minor Loft, New York City.  Sweep, for violin, percussion, and laptop orchestra, by Douglas Geers, performed May 17, 2008 at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University with the Princeton University Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) and percussionist Cameron Britt.   Sweep, for violin, percussion, and laptop orchestra, premiered April 8, 2008 at the Sonic Divergence Festival, Chicago, with PLOrk and Cameron Britt, percussion.  Community Rising, for violin and three Wii-remote controlled laptops, by Douglas Geers, premiered March 10, 2008 as part of the Composers Collaborative Serial Underground series, Cornelia St. Café, New York City. How Long/Rescue (excerpt of Calling) performed February 27, 2008, Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, Ted Mann Concert Hall, Minneapolis. Rescue (excerpt from Calling), premiered November 10, 2007 as part of the Serial Underground performance series, Cornelia Street Café, New York City.   August 4 and 5th, 2007: Invited performance of Autopoiesis and Mimesis (both by Borissov/Cerar) at the SIGGRAPH international conference/festival, Cal-IT2 Auditorium, San Diego.  June 2007:  Chamber music recital of Vivaldi, Monti, etc., on the island of Dugi Otok, Croatia, at the opening concert of the summer 2007 cultural season.  March 2007: Cerar performed music and movement in Liubo Borissov and Edisa Weeks' An Arrow and a Fall, at Swing Space and the Joyce SoHo Theater, New York City.  Cerar was spotlighted at the 2007 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts in late February, where she played Morton Subotnick's Tremble, Ted Mann Concert Hall; Jason Freeman's, Graph Theory, Southern Theater; and Doug Geers' Shadow, Southern Theatre (Minneapolis).  In February 2007 Cerar performed Jason Freeman's Graph Theory, at the Cornelia Street Café, New York City as part of the Serial Underground series.  On October 26, 2006 Maja Cerar premiered a multimedia violin concerto written for her by Douglas Geers at the final night of the international Unicum Festival for new music and as part of the subscription series of the Radio-Television Orchestra of Slovenia (Evan Christ, conductor), at the Cankarjev Dom Performing Arts Center in Ljubljana, Slovenia. This performance was broadcast live on national television and radio, and included choreography by Maja Cerar. In August 2006 Cerar performed a chamber music recital at the Loca Musica summer school in Skofja Loka, Slovenia. In May 2006 Cerar recorded Graph Theory, a new work written for her by Jason Freeman. This Internet-based work was launched in October of 2006. Maja Cerar was a "Featured Soloist" at the 2006 Spark Festival (February) and performed two programs of electroacoustic music by featured composer Alvin Lucier and composers Panayiotis Kokoras (Greece), Gilles Gobert (Belgium), Roger Dannenberg (U.S.), Douglas Geers (U.S.), and Cerar/Borissov (Switzerland/Bulgaria) in the Ted Mann Concert Hall and Ultan Recital Hall, Minneapolis. << PAUSE >>   Appearances in 2001-05 -- Highlights: International John Zorn's violin concerto "Contes de Fées" on the opening evening of the ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music) World Music Days 2003 and the opening of the season of the Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra in Ljubljana Solo work "Enkidu" by Douglas Geers with the Experimentalstudio der Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung des Südwestrundfunks Freiburg at the ISCM World Music Days 2003 Karl Amadeus Hartmann violin concerto "Concerto Funebre", Portogruaro, Italy; Radio-Television Orchestra of Slovenia (Lior Shambadal, conductor) Multimedia work Autopoiesis (Borissov/Cerar) and improvisatory performance at ICMC 2005 festival, Barcelona Gilgamesh, an evening-long multimedia violin concerto: Zurich, Theater an der Sihl, June 20-22, 2002 (created by Douglas Geers, composer; Anne Lorenz, visual design; Mirjam Neidhart, director) Blaz Arnic violin concerto, Radio-Television Orchestra of Slovenia (Arnic, conductor) Classical recital with pianist John Novacek in the 300 year anniversary season of the Slovene Philharmonic, Philharmonia Hall, Ljubljana Solo program with works by Bach, Ysaÿe, and Geers at the Festival of Creativity and Free Culture, Cankarjev Dom,  Ljubljana, 2005. Performances on Swiss and Slovene national television networks, 2000-2007. Solo work "Enkidu"by Douglas Geers at the final concert of the 2003 ICMC festival, Singapore Theater production of Vivaldi's Four Seasons in Mexico City and Huatulco (directed by Hansjörg Betschart), as well as concerts as soloist (Tartini, "Devil's Trill"; Romanelli, "Double Concerto"; etc.) at the "Viva Vivaldi" Festival of Baroque music in Mexico City and subsequent broadcast performances on Mexican national television, 2002 and 2003. New York City: Miller Theatre All-American contemporary program (works by Charles Ives, John Zorn, George Antheil, Jimi Hendrix, etc.), with pianist John Novacek, February 2001. Merce Cunningham Studio ThreeTwo Festival: Performances in a collaborative dance piece (music by Keith Moore / Maja Cerar, choreography by Malene Schjonning) Kentler International Drawing Space symposium "Herbert Brün: Computer Graphics and Compositions for Interpreters" collaborative work with Liubo Borisson featuring live interactive audio and video Columbia University  "RE: New Frontiers of Creativity" Symposium as part of the 250 Year Celebration of Columbia University (a collaborative work with Liubo Borissov with choreography, live video and audio processing, created under the auspices of multimedia artist Paul Kaiser) Lower Manhattan Project/Builders' Association/Dancing in the Streets: Thomas Edison collaborative project with Liubo Borissov with live interactive video processing, violin and theremin 25th Anniversary Season of the American Festival of Microtonal Music, work with live electronics by Douglas Geers, Faust Harrison Salon ASCAP's "Through The Walls" series, with works by Douglas Geers International Festival of Electroacoustic Music, Brooklyn College, New York "Living with the Genie" media/technology festival/symposium, Columbia University, New York Merkin Hall (Zoom: Composers Close-Up - Emerging Composers), work by Luke DuBois with interactive video Additional performances at Merkin Hall, Weill Hall (Carnegie Hall), Chelsea Museum, Engine 27, The Slipper Room, Tenri, the Speyer Recital Hall, Columbia University, NYU, Here, Shapiro Theatre, Riverside Church, etc. Elsewhere in the U.S. Ought One Festival, Montpelier, Vermont Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology, New London, Connecticut SEAMUS Festival for Electroacoustic Music in both Texas (2000) and Arizona (2003) LITSK Biennial Symposium of Electronic Music, Princeton University The Roosevelt Arts Project, New Jersey The Santa Fe International Festival of Electronic Music NWEAMO Festival in San Diego (etc.) To engage Maja Cerar for performances or for further information, please contact maja[at]music[dot]columbia[dot]edu